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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1882
Page
3
Taasiaz March 9 1882 notes early blooms on apricot trees and peaches with Easter on April 9, mentions a court week at Davidson Court, a new organ for the Moravian Church, residents returning from the South, and local commerce. Reports on measles, rising tobacco prices, a new tobacco factory, and various town notes including marriages, auctions, and church activities.
A Raleigh Observer correspondent notes Winston leads in dried fruit with annual shipments from thirty to eighty carloads ranging from 60 000 to 1 000 000 pounds. Fruit types include apples blackberries peaches pitted cherries and damsons. The fruit is dried by thousands of rural women and children on mountain farms who barter at local stores and sell to middlemen for grading and distribution.
The report covers county board sessions with pauper relief, juries, and stock-law elections, naming officials, registrars, and judges. It notes the bridge plan for Town Fork, potential corn purchases, and a county superintendent resignation. Also reports on deaths, local ads, and assorted commodity prices and goods available locally.
An advertisement touts Baugh's $25 Ammoniated Phosphate as a low cost fertilizer for cotton, claiming guaranteed analysis and identical results to the listed circular. It urges planters to compare costs, suggests making own calculations on savings, and requests a sent guaranteed analysis from BAUGH & SONS of Baltimore.
The Knoxville Tribune serves as a medium for visitors to Tennessee seeking climate, resources, prices of land and other points of interest. Inquiries about Tennessee answered by letter or through the paper. Address The Tribune Knoxville.
Market report lists assorted tobacco grades and wrappers with prices, plus notes on hogs, corn, flour, poultry, and orchard fruits. Many items are variably legible but indicate commodity prices and commodity categories for local buyers and sellers.
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